Sentences with phrase «risk of oil spills»

We the signatories draw your attention to proposals by Enbridge, Kinder Morgan and CN Rail to expand crude oil tanker traffic through B.C.'s coast to ship oil to Asia, which would put B.C.'s abundant salmon rivers and coast at risk of oil spills.

In British Columbia, the public is more divided, with nearly half (48 %) saying instead that this debate hinges on oil tankers and the potential risk of an oil spill off the west coast (see comprehensive tables for greater detail).

To export the oil, supertanker ship traffic off BC's coast would increase dramatically, exposing the area to serious risk of oil spills.

Like other pipeline projects, this one would create significant risk of oil spills, create few jobs, and provide little oil to Eastern Canada and do little to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, because most of it will be sold to the highest bidder and sent overseas.

Despite critical gains around public disclosure and preparedness measures, significant funding gaps remain that put our communities and Puget Sound at risk of an oil spill or other disasters.

Risk of an oil spill is clearly an important element for any pipeline decision.

By contrast, Northern Gateway introduces the risk of oil spills to a relatively pristine and commercially productive marine environment.

This, it implies, is unfair: another chart shows 42 % of the pipeline's length (and thus 42 % of the risk of an oil spill) lies in B.C. And the port will be entirely in B.C., of course.

Still, at least four - in - five British Columbians are worried about increases in oil tanker traffic (88 %), the risk of an oil spill (85 %) and the impact of construction on the environment (also 85 %).

Four - in - five British Columbians are concerned about the expected increase in oil tanker traffic at Kitimat and through the passage (83 %) and the risk of an oil spill (80 %) if the Enbridge Northern Gateway is authorized.

British Columbia argues that the pipeline would increase tanker traffic in Vancouver seven-fold — seriously increasing the risk of an oil spill along the B.C. coast — and that it therefore should be delayed, to further study the potential impact of a spill, or scrapped entirely.

Alberta's premier threatened trade retaliation against British Columbia for standing in the way of the pipeline, Canadian premier Justin Trudeau hinted that he could complete the project with taxpayer money, and BC's premier dug in his heels, recommitting his government to defending the coast from the risk of an oil spill.

Asked if the risks of an oil spill on land along the pipeline route is a concern, Horgan said Trans Mountain has an existing right - of - way that's «been there for 50 years with more or less unblemlished activity.»

He cited the risk of oil spills and argued that offshore drilling runs counter to New York's own plans to increase offshore wind energy facilities.

noise, including seismic surveys, as well as increases in shipping traf c and risk of oil spills.

First, put the risks of an oil spill damaging the source of water for Nebraska's $ 17 billion agricultural industry and the livelihoods of all the other ranchers and farmers along the route.

Given the tidal wave of bipartisan opposition that it has triggered since its unveiling earlier this month, the Trump administration's controversial plan to expose nearly all U.S. coastal waters to the risk of oil spills will attract vocal national and local criticism when listening sessions kick off this week in Annapolis, MD (January 16), Richmond, VA (January 17) and Dover, DE (January 18).

Other impacts of tight oil include potentially significant water, air, and noise pollution around drilling sites, and the risk of oil spills by the trucks, trains, and pipes that transport extracted shale oil to refineries.

We have two main concerns: the risk of oil spills along the pipeline, which would traverse highly sensitive terrain, and the fact that the extraction of petroleum from the tar sands creates far more greenhouse emissions than conventional production does.

Aside from the stress of noise, drilling in the Arctic runs the risk of an oil spill.

She has raised serious questions about the proposed pipeline route, which cuts through a region with a history of landslides, seismic activity and separatist rebellions, contributing to the risk of an oil spill or sabotage.

We are pushing lawmakers to make real gains in protecting our communities and waterways from the risk of oil spills.

Other concerns raised by Greenpeace include the risk of oil spills, fires, or groundings in relatively pristine waters.

The political calculus is understandable — the risk of an oil spill weighed against the far greater threat posed by global warming — but in the end, he may have succeeded only in compounding one environmental catastrophe with another.

In doing so, he ignored his administration's top experts on ocean science, who warned that the offshore plan dramatically understated the risks of an oil spill and petitioned Salazar to exempt the Arctic from drilling until more scientific studies could be conducted.

Still, some groups, such as the Coastal First Nations and Yinka Dene Alliance, are staunchly opposed to oil pipelines, saying they fear the risks of oil spills as well as potential loss of traditional ways.

A number of First Nations have expressed serious concerns to the JRP about potential impacts to their rights from the project due to the pipeline, increased tanker traffic, and the risk of an oil spill that could devastate their traditional territories, waters and resources.

For example, the court specifically mentioned the «insufficient information» that Heiltsuk needed to assess the impacts on their Aboriginal rights, especially information «regarding the risk of an oil spill to herring - spawn - on - kelp — a resource over which the Heiltsuk have an Aboriginal right to fish on a commercial basis....»

Opponents of the expansion project claim that increasing the flow of oil would swell the risk of oil spills and pollution in Burnaby and the surrounding areas.